Doll eye



J 1939- N. PAGANELLO 2,160,982

DOLL EYE Filed April 50, 1958 WITNES INVENTOR FELMW ATTORNEYS Patented June 6, 1939 UNITED STATES DOLL EYE Nunzio Paganello, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Salvator Paganello, New York, N. Y.

Application April 30, 1938, Serial No. 205,222

' 5 Claims. (o1. 46-169 The invention relates to artificial eyes used in connection with dolls heads and particularly to eyes which are supported within the interior of the dolls head and are movable from a position Where the eyes are visible when the head is vertical to a position where the painted eye-lids become visible when the doll is moved to a horizontal position.

Considerable difficulty has thus far been experienced in properly securing the eye portions to the bar upon which they are supported so as not only to secure the eyes in definite position on the supporting bar while still permitting them to be adjusted with respect to their desired positions on that bar. It is the object of the present invention to provide in a simple form a means for achieving the desired result not only in a better manner than has heretofore been possible, but also more economically. so The invention is shown in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a front view of the eyes in elevation mounted upon a supporting bar attached to a weighted member; Fig. 2 is a side view thereof; and Fig. 3 is a rear view thereof. 25 Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of the eye dome in side elevation and Fig. 5 is a rear view thereof.

The eye portion I is a dome or hollow hemispherical piece of metal adapted to fit the eye socket of a dolls head and provided with the customary painted representation of an eye at the lower portion and an eyelid at the upper portion. At approximately the central part of the side edges of the dome I a small section of the a side wall is pressed inwardly to form the wall 2. 5 This wall is centrally perforated at 3 and a narrow flaring slot 4 runs from the perforation 3 through the edge of the dome l. The slot 4 is preferably narrower than the diameter of the aperture 3 and results in the production of prongs 5 at the sides of the lower portions of the wall 2. The dimensions of the aperture 3 are slightly smaller than the dimensions of the supporting bar 6, the difference in the two diameters being preferably in the neighborhood of from to of an inch. The circumferential edge portion of the dome defined by the side edges of the aperture 3 and of the slot 4 is thereby configured to provide narrow gripping elements effective at the prongs for cooperation with the supporting bar 6. When the eyes are completed as described, they are forced upon the supporting rod 6 and can be moved on that bar to any desired position which may be necessary, especially as may be required by reason of shrinkage of the dolls head in the process of its manufacture; The eyes'ca n also be moved in circumferential relation with respect to the supporting rod to any desired position. Once they have been properly positioned on the rod they maintain that position reliably and 5 firmly, due in part to the fact that the rod 6 initially had a greater diameter than the apertures 3 but also to the fact that the pressed-in walls 2 and the prongs 5 exercise a resilient gripping power. Thus, if there were only apertures such as 3, without the slots 4 the wall 2 and the prongs 5, the position of the eye domes on the supporting rod 6 would tend to become loose after slight manipulation, whereas in the described structure of this application the tenacity of position-maintaining influences is preserved by developing the side walls of the eye domes into a condition where an effective gripping is constantly maintained, notwithstanding any manipulations which may be given to the eye dome with respect to its supporting rod, even though the .bar 6 is round as is usually the case, and therefore presents no obstacle in its own structure to the rotation thereon or lateral movement thereon of the eye domes.

The supporting rod 6 is usually connected with a weighted member I and the structure as a whole then associated with mechanism which is a fixture within the dolls head and from which the rod 6 is supported so as to have rocking engagement therefrom. The fixture is a well known mechanism and is therefore not described. Ordinarily it is of such character as to permit the ready insertion and removal of the weighted eyecarrying bar 6.

I claim:

'1. A dolls eye constituted of a dome-shaped metal eye member having on at least one side thereof a portion of the edge thereof pressed inwardly to form a wall within the dome, a per- 40 foration in said wall and a relatively narrow slot extending fromthe perforation through the edge of the wall to provide narrow gripping elements adapted for cooperation with a supporting bar to hold the eye on such bar in any adjusted position of the eye with respect to the bar.

2. A dolls eye constituted of a dome-shaped metal eye member having on at least one side thereof a portion of the edge thereof pressed inwardly to form a wall within the dome, a perforation in said Wall and a relatively narrow outwardly flaring slot extending from the perforation through the edge of the wall forming prongs at the juncture of the perforation and the slot adapted for cooperation with a supporting bar to hold the eye on such bar in any adjusted position of the eye with respect to the bar.

3. In a dolls-eye structure of the rocking type, a supporting bar and a dome-shaped eye member, the opposite sides of the edges of the dome being in-pressed and the in-pressed portions perforated at a point close to the edge of the dome, said apertures being slightly smaller in diameter than the diameter of the supporting rod, and short narrow slots less wide than the apertures and extending from the said apertures through the edge of the in-pressed side portions to provide prong-like terminals for said in-pressed walls.

4. In a dolls-eye structure of the rocking type, a supporting bar and a dome-shaped eye member, the opposite sides of the edges of the dome being in-pressed and the in-pressed portions perforated at a point close to the edge of the dome, said apertures being slightly smaller in diameter than the diameter of the suporting rod and short narrow outwardly flaring slots, less wide than the apertures and extending from the said apertures through the edge of the in-pressed side portions forming prongs at the juncture of the perforations and the slots cooperating with the supporting bar to hold the eye on such bar in any adjusted position with respect to the bar.

5. In a dolls eye structure of the rocking type, a weighted member, a supporting bar connected with the weighted member and a dome-shaped eye member supported on said bar, the opposite edges of the dome being in-pressed and the inpressed portions perforated at a point close to the edge of the dome, said apertures being slightly smaller in diameter than the diameter of the supporting rod and short narrow slots, less wide than the apertures and extending from he said apertures through the edge of the in-pressed side portions to provide prong-like terminals for said in-pressed walls.

NUNZIO PAGANELLO. 

